I’m not usually a great fan Brendan O’Neill’s Telegraph blog, disagreeing profoundly with most of what he says there, but in yesterday’s blog he offers a very perspicacious explanation for Britain’s political and media elite’s embrace of gay marriage, despite the lack of popular support. Here’s a quote from it, although I recommend reading the whole piece (LINK):

“[Supporting gay marriage] is so very useful as a litmus test of liberal, cosmopolitan values, having become a kind of shorthand way of indicating one’s superiority over the hordes . . . . its transformation into a clear-cut moral matter that separates the good from the bad, shows what its backers really get out of it – a moral buzz, a rush of superiority as they declare, to anyone who will listen, that they are For Gay Marriage.”